Zygmunt Freud: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)

“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."”

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.”

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”

“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”

“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”

“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

“The ego is not master in its own house.”

“A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.”

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

“There are no mistakes”

“public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.”

“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”

“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”